Show destroyers AR YING IDLE NOW MANY SHIPS ARE NOW IN VARI OUS PORTS WITH GREATLY DEPLETED complements more than two hundred of amerl cas destroyers are reported to have depleted crews denby does not favor reduction washington more than destroyers of the united states stales navy are now lying la in various ports with depleted crews barely sufficient in number to keep up their intricate mechanism admiral robert E coontz chief of naval operations testified before the house naNal commIttee only sixty five of this class are in operating commission sion the admiral said and the crows crews of 0 those ore are being maintained at 80 0 per cent normal strength streng fh supporting secretary denays recommendation ommen dation that the ho enlisted strength odthe of the navy be not reduced below 00 00 the witness said that the ze tte yera which would be placed wholly out of commission to make possible the reduction of pien men in tile the navy suggested by secretary denby will deteriorate to a greater or less extent while laid up As to the effect of the naval limitation treaty admiral coontz said the result of the limitations of ar manent conference will bo be to place upon each signatory power the onus of keeping its tonnage allotments up to the razor edge of efficiency should we reduce below the minimum stated by the die secretary of the navy it will be a by example and not by agreement the measure of the ratio of 0 5 5 3 will be the efficiency rind sufficiency of t the he personnel of the fleet no other nation has taken any actual step toward its personnel |